Digging into the past

[duetsavvy]

[1]
So, let me get this straight. That crazy guy who tried to drop Phobos on Earth... he used to be an UG member?

[Brye stabs her salad with a fork, like a professional vegetable torturer.]

You have quite a party going on, you know that?

[2]
[The Grungust Alpha is missing from the hangar in Fort Alhambra!

But the culprit is easy to find, as the big super robot is not too far away - its eye lasers digging into the ground around the base, creating complicated and large-scale images. And the pilot...]


Hey, I'm getting better at this!

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[duetsavvy]

The what now? And that's not a good track record at all, you have to admit...

[actuallyselfish]

"The Terrible Trio," Dido says. Thunder strikes in the distance. "A trust-fund kid with delusions of heroism, his trigger-happy friend, and his obsessive super-soldier love interest." Dido's face's becomes shadowed and grim. "If you ever meet them, don't hold back."

She takes another bite of her sandwich and swallows. "Not a good track record?" She muses in response to Brye's question. "Maybe...but it's a consequence of our recruiting method. The UG recruits the best pilots it can, but the only ace pilots militaries transfer to our service are the troublesome ones."

She raises an eyebrow at Brye.

[duetsavvy]

Hey, I'm not a transfer. I left SSR on my own, and that's because it wasn't as clear cut and selfless as it pictures itself to be!

Oh yeah, by the way...

[actuallyselfish]

"Troublesome isn't always bad," Dido is quick to say. "Sometimes a maverick's just what you need to save the world or right a wrong..."

She coughs. "In any case, was there something you wanted to know?"

[duetsavvy]

That Ingram you mentioned... isn't the name on the memorial wall?

[actuallyselfish]

Dido let out a soft breath. "Ah," she said. "That one's a doozy."

She sits down. "There were actually two Ingram Plisskens that operated in the Unity Group...identical clone warriors from the Balmarian Empire. One of them impersonated the other so he could backstab us in the field...but the other gave his life to nuke the Balmarian invasion fleet."

She sighs. "From our perspective, Plissken was a traitor for a long time. We only learned the truth until the very end...and that's why "Dead End Shot" Ingram's on our wall."

[duetsavvy]

... Okay.

That's a lot to take in all at once. It sounds like treason and trickery is what you had to deal with a lot of times.